Hitler's Henchmen
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Christopher Klein is the author of four books, including When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans Who Fought for Ireland’s Freedom and Strong Boy: The Life and Times of John L. Bohne would be prosecuted for administering the Nazi’s euthanasia program aimed at purifying the Aryan race of people with physical infirmities and mental disabilities.
Gunter d'Alquen – Chief Editor of the SS official newspaper, Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps"), and commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers. Wilhelm Weiß – Editor-in-Chief of the Nazi Party's official newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, from 1938 to 1945, President of the Reich Press Association and an SA- Obergruppenführer. What He's Infamous For: An Austrian Nazi, Schwammberger was an SS commandant in charge of three labor camps in the Jewish ghettoes of Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Played a key role in the "Harvest Festival" massacre of Jewish inmates of various labor camps in the Lublin district of Nazi-occupied Poland in early November 1943.By 1945 Wolff was acting military commander of Italy, and in that capacity negotiated the surrender of all the forces in the Southwest Front If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say that there has been no war, that there are no slain, that there has been no crime. Walter Model – Generalfeldmarschall and one of Hitler's favorite commanders, he held Army Group commands on the Eastern Front and briefly as Commander-in-Chief in the West.
What He's Infamous For: An SS colonel, Rauff was instrumental in the construction and implementation of the mobile gas chambers responsible for killing an estimated 100,000 people during World War II.
In 1942 he succeeded Fritz Todt as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production, Head of the Organisation Todt, Inspector General for German Roadways and Inspector General for Water and Energy. Priebke also signed off on the transport of 2,000 Roman Jews to Auschwitz and served as the Nazi go-between with the Vatican. Wilhelm Loeper – Gauleiter in Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt, Reichsstatthalter of Brunswick and Anhalt until his death in 1935. Wilhelm Grimm – Reichsleiter; Chairman of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Party Court 1932–1939 and an SS- Gruppenführer.
The modern sense of "obedient or unscrupulous follower" is first recorded 1839, probably based on a misunderstanding of the word as used by Scott, and is often used to describe an out-and-out adherent or partisan, ready to do anything. A key figure of Hitler’s inner circle was Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda and a fervent follower whom Hitler selected to succeed him as chancellor. Josef Grohé – Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen and Reichskommissar for Reichskommissariat of Belgium and Northern France, he was an Obergruppenführer in the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). But referred to in 1960 paperback Eichmann: the Man and His Crimes as Hitler's chauffeur, speculating whether Hitler knew he was a French Jew.
Reichsleiter, Gauleiter of Gau Berlin, and Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda throughout Nazi Germany, he became Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War and Stadtpräsident of Berlin in 1944. Hans-Friedrich Blunck – Propagandist and head of the Reich Literature Chamber between 1933 and 1935. For myself, I don't give a damn if I get executed, or drown, or crash in a plane, or drink myself to death!
Kurt Meyer – SS- Brigadeführer; Generalmajor der Waffen-SS; commanded 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion (LSSAH); later commanded 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. He was chosen by Himmler to oversee the creation of, and command the volunteer Waffen-SS Division, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. Reichsleiter, Commander-in-Chief of the Replacement Army and Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood.More than half a century after Hitler's demise ZDF have successfully recovered what was until now "lost" footage of Hitler's aides.
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